![]() ![]() Mary Steenburgen, as Wells' newfound love interest in 1979, acts well enough, but she delivers some of her lines unconvincingly. David Warner is adequate as Jack the Ripper, but you don't get enough of a feeling of the Ripper's insanity and evil. Malcolm McDowell is believable yet comical as the intellectual Wells, almost bird-like in his quick, darting movements. Wells leaps beyond the bounds of conventional imagination to tell the story of the Time Traveler. Wells, with his idealistic dreams of a perfectible society, is completely out of place in our modern era. ![]() (This kind of brain-to-brain combat between two very special people is a theme that Nicholas Meyer will return to in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.") Particularly interesting is how Jack the Ripper, an evil serial killer, finds himself completely at home in the year 1979, while H.G. Wells, who steps into the machine to get to 1979 too, and chase after the Ripper. Wells' time machine to escape to the year 1979, and H.G. "Time after Time" is a clever battle of wits between Jack the Ripper, who has used H.G. Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of The Time Machine, scene by scene break-downs, and more. ![]()
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